He directed his steps to Taos and at once entered into an engagement with Mr.Ewing Young, making his cabin headquarters.
Hunting and trapping were somewhat different employments, though perhaps equally exciting.

The hunter depended upon his rifle, and was mainly in search of food.

Still the robe of the buffalo and the coat of the grizzly bear were very useful in various ways, in the cabin of the hunter, and the softly tanned skin of the deer was invaluable, furnishing every article of clothing, shirt, leggins and moccasins.

The skins of these animals had also a market value.
But the trapper was in pursuit of furs only.

Though the men engaged in this pursuit were occasionally exposed to great hardship and suffering, still, in general they probably had, in the gratification of congenial tastes, a full share of such happiness as this world can furnish.
Young Carson, at the age of nineteen, had no taste for the scholarly seclusion of Yale or Harvard, no desire to stand all day behind the counter of the dry-goods store, or to work amid the crowd and the hum of the factory; he had no wish for what is called society, or to saunter down Broadway with his cigar and his cane, to exhibit his tightly-fitting garments; but he did love to set out on a hunting and trapping expedition.
Let us follow him in one of these adventures.
It is a bright morning of the Indian summer, far along in November.